Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia, while welcoming distinguished guests and august audience, said, "We want to create a positive influence on the communities we serve. We do it by promoting, surveying, and by doing different things to ensure that growth of the industry happens."

This year two new categories-the "Emerging Company of the Year" and the "Technovator of the Year"-were also added to V&D100 awards. Tejas Networks was awarded the "Emerging Company of the Year". The company has been awarded for their contribution in the optical transmission space. Rajiv C Mody, chairman and CEO, Sasken Communication Technologies, was awarded the "Technovator of the Year". Sasken is one of the leading software technology providers for imaging video and music industry globally. More than 50 mn phones carry Sasken's intellectual property. These two awards have been announced for the first time.

Prithipal Singh, former CMD, BSNL; and SK Gupta, former CMD, VSNL were the guest of honor for V&D100 awards.

  Also during the event, a number top telecom companies were given the V&D100 awards for excellence in business performance in FY 2006-07. The long list includes Polycom, UTStarcom, Bharti Teletech, LG Electronics, Nokia, Atrie Technology, Wipro Infotech, EMC, HCL Comnet, Tyco Electronics, Agilent Technologies, Sterlite Optical, ITI, ECI Telecom, TCS, Avaya GlobalConnect, Bharti Airtel, VSNL, Hughes, Arvind Mills, GIL, OnMobile, Aperto, Ericsson, Cisco, Nokia and BSNL.

We are presenting the best moments of the award function held in New Delhi in a number of photographs. Cheers to winners and the audience!